Security Architecture Planning

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Security Architecture Planning is the process by which a company develops the security framework that is used to protect corporate assets and information systems. The process involves incorporating ...
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This group covers issues related to security policy development for IT networks, including general security policy development, security as it relates to employee use of networks, and security breach repercussions.

This group covers risk assessment tools and methodologies used to protect the IT infrastructure. Sample topics include security risks caused by internet connectivity, security countermeasures, security metrics and measurement, and general levels of security risk across a business IT network.

This group is for discussing topics related to the evaluation and selection of network security solutions, including identifying and negotiating with vendors, comparing products, and performing ROI calculations.

Been busy thinking about the original work done by RedMonk on Compliance Oriented Architectures and figured I would take the opportunity to expand the community of knowledge with something I am labelling Forensic Oriented Architectures...

Over time, application architecture has become more complex progressing through mainframe centric, client server, distributed computing, loosely coupled architecture, to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With each change in application architecture security has become more complex.

I have a conundrum regarding splitting the IT department for the company into three, as the company has grown and now being formed into a group of companies with subsidiaries. The recommendation is to split and replicate the IT infrastructure for the HQ and the three subsidiaries. What kind of solu